Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-25
RANDOM NOTES.
Doings in Whsslings Social Circles for the
Past Six Days.
A DREAM OF" BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
The Latest Beautfsr Used in Washington
Society, and How Made.
PAST And COMING EVENTS

PA0T ANU GVMlNu
81 see you have a new sign, Almond
Neal" said a REGISTER correspondent to
one Of the prominent druggists, of Wash
ington, D, C., the other morning, Il no
tice, also, that your competitors all along
this street have duplicated your sign
"What does it mean"
SIT means that q new fad has struck
town." was the reply.
Sometime ago one of the ladies who
writes the reports upon the style OF dresses
that her sister will wear next year aud
such other material for the benefit of the
female kind, made q statement in q news
paper to the effect that almond meal, II
constantly used, would cause the user to
become beautiful under any circumstances.
Since that time almond meal has become
the one thing sought Tor by the ladies OF
Washington who have not been favored by
nature with extremely handsome faces"
as the sale of it very large"'
well | don't know. l should imagine
that from three to five barrels a day are
sold at the present time" was the reply.
1T looks very much" said your cores
pendent, las though the lady who wrote
the original article had entered into a con-
spiracy with the manufacturer OF the meal.
What 40 you Think" -,
"Oh, no. Nothing OF that kind could
possibly have been. | will tell you ore OF
the secrets of this business. Almond meal
can be made by any druggist, The recipe
is the simplest in the world. We take a
few almonds and some flour. Then we
grind the almonds and mix them with the
flour. aud the meal IL made
what is the proportiOnH"
about one almond TO a barrel Of flour, y
was the reply, and then the druggist went
TO put up a seventy-fve cent prescription
with two cents worth of ingredients.
The chief social event of the past week
at Petersburg was a novel n indeed and
withal an artiStically beautiful one, as the
following description taken from the Jour
nal will show:
''Chsucer heard q 'Legende Of Goode
Women" aud Tennysou dreamed a Dream
Of Fair Women" but Parkersburg is able
II produce scores of those who are both
GOOD and fair. The writer whose pleasant
task it shall be to properly aud adequately
weave these characters into poetry and
sorg, has not yet appeared in the literary
heavens. A half dozsn OF these fa'r
women covered themselves with praises
and glory in presenting the characters In
Tennyson's ~well-knOwn and beautiful
poem. The occasion was a bazaar and en-
tertaiument given by the Amateur Art
Club az its rooms over the Second National
Bank. The costume in every instance was
in keeping with the historical requirements
and the separate and combined elects were
strikinglv beautiful aud realistic.
Mrs. w. H. Smith, jr., as Helen OF
Troy" WAS first seen when the curtain
arose.
"sGlier than chiserrd marble, standing there,
4 daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divine!y tair.
The ~poetical description is an accurate
one. The audience, which was exception
ally cultured and intelligent, aud which
filed the hall, was warm III its applause.
Mrs. Smith suited the character perfectly.
"Gaone, the Wife OF Paris, was I'M
personated by Mrs. A. Gardner Jackson,
whose perfect features and complexion and
graceful pose admirably qualified her to
take the role of the beautiful Greek.
When the curtains were drawn aside the
third time the audience
saw, throned on u iOwery rise,
One sitting on Grim. on scarf uirolIel' .,
A queen with swarthy cheeks and bold
black eyes,
Brow bound with burning gold
This was Miss Lizzie Nelly, who made q
charming CLEOPATRA "robed aud crown
ed, worthy Is Roman spouse"
One of the prettiest costumes anu alto
gether one Of the most beautiful tableHux
of the series was presented by Nliss Cora
Turner as '~Jeptha's Daughter
THE daughter of the warrior Gileadlte,
A maiden pure; as when she went along
FROM Mizp"h's lowered gate with welcome
light,
with timbrel and with song
1t was a pretty role, excellently taken,
as she
Past afar
Tbr,Iding the sombre boskags of the wood,
Toward the morning star
The Maid of Orleans, the heroine OF
Lorraine, in the person OF Miss Cora Ein-
cent, was greeted with much applause as
she appeared in fifteenth century cos
tune. and holding a half sbeathed sword.
She made an excellent
Joan OF Arc,
4 light Of ancient France"
The last single tableau was Miss Bessie
Murdoch az Queen Eleanore,
"Who knew that Love can vanish Death.
She looked every inch a perfect queen
as she kuelt by the chair where the king
was supposed to have sat. Her costume
WAS especially elegant, the train being a
genuine French importation.
THE luxuriant symmetry
OF thy floating graCefulneSs,
EleanOre;
Every turn AMI glance Of thine
Every lineament divine,
EleanOre,'